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The New Yorker

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realise

Harvard Divinity Bulletin

The Rise of Capitalism

The New York Times

Two Weeks at Twitter
The Atavist Magazine 

Who is Mr X?




Harpers Magazine 

Is Liberalism Worth Saving?






The Radio Times

Cyber Crime



The New Republic

Book review of Fulfilment: Winning and losing in One-Click America  By Alec MacGillis

History Today

Ukrainian Tales

History Today

The 51st State?





The New York Times

What Will Happen if Doctors Defy the Law to Provide Abortions?
Prospect

Arrested Development:
The Inside Story of Institutional Misogyny in the Police 






The Economist

The Ticking Bomb under Canad’s Constitution 


The Economist 

How Russia is Trying to Win Over the Global South

The Economist

Chinese Political interference has Western Spooks Worried


The Economist

China Wants to Insulate itself against Western Sanctions 







Left Cultures 

Response to The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The New York Times 

Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board




Revue Dada 

Artworks Based on the Work of Francis Picabia






The New Yorker

Did Making the Rules of War Better Make the World Worse?


Lehigh’s Research Magazine

Reading the Room





History Today

Governing Goliath


History Today

Rotting Among the Tsetse


History Today

The death of Liberal South Africa 


Gallimard

Book Cover for ‘‘Leur âme au diable’ by Marin Ledun


The Economist

The Agony of Silence


The New York Times

Book review: The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley





Republik

Neoliberals and Right-Wing Populists


The New York Times

Book review: Crazy Sorrow by Vince Passaro


Cheese Magazine 

Cover and internal illustration: The History and Future of Cheese






History Today

Uncomfortable History


History Today

Distortions and Omissions


History Today

Belarus Remembers






A Dance With Death 2020

Rotland Press: The Plague Review






Paravion Press

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka





Prospect

To sit alongside an extract of “Who They Was” By Gabriel Krauze



Virginia Quarterly Review

The Long Fall: The Weird Dream that was 2020








 
The Economist 

No Vaccine For Cruelty





Rotland Press

Logo and Pin Design





Big Head Jim

Rotlandpress: The Dreadfuls



A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Self-initiated poster






History Today

Who’s Afraid of the Stasi?


History Today

Pandemics now and then


History Today

Trust in Change

History Today

Colonial Mentalities

History Today

Pandemics and Mental Health

History Today

Disraeli or Churchill






The New York Times

Book review of WE GERMANS by Alexander Starritt




Rotland Press

The Plague Review










The Critic

Cover illustration 


New Statesman

The journalism of fear




IPE Real Assets

Cover illustrations 







History Today

Britain’s Forgotten Citizens. What did it mean to be black and British in the Caribbean in the 20th century?


History Today

The positives and negatives of public statues





History Today

The State of Myanmar

History Today

Sudan’s Third Revolution



History Today

Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Nightmare




History Today

Escape to Mexico


History Today

The Protectors



History Today

India Breaks Free?


History Today

Finding Wonderful Things


History Today

Brexit Forever



History Today

Not Blair’s War but Britain’s

The New York Times

Book review of Now We Shall Be Entirely Free By Andrew Miller


BBC World Histories magazine

The influences of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four





1984 

Poster

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Artwork based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation






BBC History

Medieval Medicine





Kafka

Portrait 






Welcome to the New World

Self published short story 




Easyjet Traveller

Fantastic Beasts







Cicero Magazine

The Future of the Democratic Party and its Lean to the Left 


Arm Magazine
Cover artwork for the tech company Arm

Arm’s technology can be found in so many things, from biogenetics to spacecraft







The New Yorker

The Birth-Tissue Profiteers






The New Yorker

Review of Jonathan Lee’s ‘High Dive’


The New Yorker

The reputation laundering firm that ruined its own reputation.


The New Yorker

Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington





The Folio Society

The Folio Society’s edition of ‘The Secret Agent’ by Joseph Conrad






The Folio Society

The Folio Society’s edition of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess






The New York Times

Book review of ‘The Little Red Chairs’ by Edna O’Brien



The New York Times 

Book review of ‘A Man Lies Dreaming’ by Lavie Tidhar

The New York Times

Book review: The Wall by John Lanc






The New York Times

Book review of ‘The Middleman’ by Olen Steinhauer


The New York Times

Book review of ‘Ill Will’ by Dan Chaon









The New York Times

Who are ‘we the people’?


The New York Times

Britain’s crime of complicity


The New York Times

The Neuroscience of Hate 


The New York Times

A Flu Pandemic is Coming







The New York Times

Why Our Nuclear Weapons can be Hacked


The New York Times

What a Witch Hunt Really looks Like


The New York Times

Witchcraft on the Campaign Trail
 
The New York Times

The allure of the prison break





Hermès

Still from animated ident and red gift envelopes for Hermès’ Chinese New Year campaign







The Lancet

Selection of covers for the Diabetes and Endocrinology magazine













The Lancet

Covers for the Gastroenterology and Hepatology magazine




Rotland Press

Book cover (unpublished)

Pointless Nukes 

Self-initiated poster

Putin’s World Cup

I Don’t Love Soccer Because Soccer Has Never Loved Me




John Hopkins Carey Business School

Under the Weather
John Hopkins Magazine

The Long Shadow of a Poor Start 




The Village Voice

A Century of Dissent. Two novels and a biography explore Dada, Futurism, Suuealism, and the art of opposition

BBC History

Book review of ‘The Coroner’s Daughter’
by Andrew Hughes





Institutional Investor

Jim Grant’s Botched Bridgewater Takedown


Institutional Investor

Michael Bloomberg




Gallimard

Book Cover for ‘‘The Aestheticisation of the World’ by Gilles Lipovetsky and Jean Serroy


 Pushkin Press 

Book Cover for ‘The Hideout by Egon Hostovsky

Penguin Books

Book cover for ‘The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett








BBC History Magazine

Selection of spot illustrations for the Old News section. 

Cicero Magazine

Fickle politicians cover and internal illustration









In the House of Melted Heads

Self published short story





Rotland Press

Cover for Black Eye 2

Rotland Press

Promo for Black Eye 2 







Rotland Press

A Day in the Life of the Fop, Short story.






Rotland Press

On the Way Down, Short story.